Quotes About Delay

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay, often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.

Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in.

The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay, often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.

maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in. You didn't feel anything at first. The feeling came later on.

Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took awhile for it to sink in. You don't feel anything at first. The feeling came later on.

Quizá la buena suerte se parecía a la mala suerte en que tardabas un tiempo en asimilarla.

No—wait. I'm coming back.

A Satanás no le importa lo espiritual que sean tus intenciones, siempre y cuando les dejes para mañana.

I hate patience. Slows everything down.

The disadvantage of short term is a wrong perspective based on this generation's need for instant results.

All the unreasonable benefits for me came after nearly twenty years.

Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death.

Resentimentul se na?te din neacceptarea faptului c? dorin?ele nu mi s-au realizat, c? ceea ce am spus nu a fost în?eles, c? a?tept?rile mi-au fost în?elate, c? proiectele mi-au fost stricate sau amânate, c? via?a nu se ajusteaz? dup? percep?ia mea.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late.

qualcosa che si impara con l'età, la capacità di non affrettarsi quando si è già comunque in ritardo...

Rejection—It may be a delay. It may be a distraction. It may even be a devastation for a season but it is not your final destination.

I know not why we should delay our tokens of respect to those who merit them, until the heart that our sympathy could have gladdened has ceased to beat. As men cannot read the epitaphs inscribed upon the marble that covers them, so the tombs that we erect to virtue often only prove our repentance that we neglected it when with us.

Beyond fatigue, there was another good reason to delay taking the dead out of an apartment: until the death was declared, the family could still collect rations in the name of the deceased.

But was a miracle still a miracle if it came too late?

Questions that begin with "When" lead to procrastination.

Putting things off means precious time is lost. Productivity suffers.

Justice delayed is justice denied.